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8 produkter
Black Studies, Rap, and the Academy
Inbunden, 1993
273 kr
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In this explosive book, Houston Baker takes stock of the current state of Black Studies in the university and outlines its responsibilities to the newest form of black urban expression--rap. A frank, polemical essay, Black Studies, Rap, and the Academy is an uninhibited defense of Black Studies and …
Workings of the Spirit
The Poetics of Afro-American Women's Writing
Inbunden, 1991
979 kr
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Turning on inspired interpretations of Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, and Ntozake Shange, Workings of the Spirit weighs current critical approaches to black women's writing against Baker's own explanation of the founding, theoretical state of Afro-American intellectual history. "Brilliant, and …
Workings of the Spirit
The Poetics of Afro-American Women's Writing
Häftad, 1993
283 kr
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Turning on inspired interpretations of Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, and Ntozake Shange, Workings of the Spirit weighs current critical approaches to black women's writing against Baker's own explanation of the founding, theoretical state of Afro-American intellectual history."Brilliant, and …
Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature
A Vernacular Theory
Häftad, 1987
332 kr
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Relating the blues to American social and literary history and to Afro-American expressive culture, Houston A. Baker, Jr., offers the basis for a broader study of American culture at its "vernacular" level. He shows how the "blues voice" and its economic undertones are both central to the American …
Afro-American Literary Study in the 1990s
Av Houston A. Baker Jr., Patricia Redmond
Häftad, 1992
371 kr
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Subject classification:- Black Studies; Literature and Literary Criticism: American and Canadian
Critical Memory
Public Spheres, African American Writing, and Black Fathers and Sons in America
Inbunden, 2001
959 kr
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From the lone outcry of Richard Wright's Black Boy to the chorusing voices of Louis Farrakhan's Million Man March, Critical Memory looks across the past half century to assess the current challenges to African American cultural and intellectual life. As Houston A. Baker recalls his own youth in …
Black Studies, Rap, and the Academy
Häftad, 1995
202 kr
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In this explosive book, Houston Baker takes stock of the current state of Black Studies in the university and outlines its responsibilities to the newest form of black urban expression—rap. A frank, polemical essay, Black Studies, Rap, and the Academy is an uninhibited defense of Black Studies and …
Journey Back
Häftad, 1984
302 kr
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"Professor Baker offers the richest analysis we have of black literature in its full cultural context. A superb literary critic, a sophisticated student of culture and society, Baker is himself a very talented writer, deeply engaged in the literary-cultural 'journey' he describes. The result is a …
